City, fighting corruption, opens vice den to public

Saturday, September 1, 2001

XIAMEN, China -- He invited them in, and each became a tentacle of his empire -- a deputy mayor, a customs chief, sundry civil servants who liked their liquor and their women 20 years old. When Lai Changxing made it worth their while, authorities say, Xiamen's leaders fell in line.

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